“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
― To Kiss a King
― To Kiss a King
“We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.”
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“I only ever wanted to belong to one person and she wasn’t in that room. And in my heart I knew that even if I was a man comfortable with all the small talk it would take to break into that new life, I didn’t want it. I simply did not want it.”
― When All Is Said
― When All Is Said
“Writing often reveals us to ourselves, lets us name what’s important to us and what has been silent or silenced inside us.”
― A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry
― A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry
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